A deductive system for PC(ID)

  • Authors:
  • Ping Hou;Johan Wittocx;Marc Denecker

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • LPNMR'07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The logic FO(ID) uses ideas from the field of logic programming to extend first order logic with non-monotone inductive definitions. This paper studies a deductive inference method for PC(ID), its propositional fragment.We introduce a formal proof system based on the sequent calculus (Gentzen-style deductive system) for this logic. As PC(ID) is an integration of classical propositional logic and propositional inductive definitions, our deductive system integrates inference rules for propositional calculus and definitions.We prove the soundness and completeness of this deductive system for a slightly restricted fragment of PC(ID). We also give a counter-example to show that cut-elimination does not hold in this proof system.